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The Somnambulist

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Format: Paperback
Library Classification: Adult Fiction
BIC Subjects: Modern fiction
Audience: General/trade
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
Imprint: Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Publication Date: 24/04/2012
Place of Publication: United Kingdom

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When seventeen-year-old Phoebe Turner visits Wilton's Music Hall to watch her Aunt Cissy performing on stage, she risks the wrath of her mother Maud who marches with the Hallelujah Army, campaigning for all London theatres to close. While there, Phoebe is drawn to a stranger, the enigmatic Nathaniel Samuels, who heralds dramatic changes in the lives of all three women. When offered the position of companion to Nathaniel's reclusive wife, Phoebe leaves her life in London's East End for Dinwood Court in Herefordshire - a house that may well be haunted and which holds the darkest of truths.

Vividly compelling, dark and dazzling Katherine Webb Paints a vivid picture of Victorian times STAR MAGAZINE Finishing THE SOMNAMBULIST feels like coming back (somewhat regretfully) from time-travelling to Victoria's England. Essie Fox's descriptions of places are just wonderful. This writer has the neat knack of recapturing the mystical eccentricity of Victorian time and place without caricaturing it. I was totally drawn in. I look forward to the next book from this writer Michelle Lovric Essie Fox transports us to the Victorian squalor of London's East End for a tale of illegitimacy, incest and theatricality with so many twists that you'll want to read it in one sitting COSMOPOLITAN I am currently reading THE SOMNAMBULIST, a novel which I am enjoying so much that I was up at six this morning to relish it in the peace of my still sleeping household. It has taken me to new worlds, is riven with suspense, has made my imagination wander, and my fingers itch to turn the last page Jojo Moyes A tale of complicated thespian lives, old secrets and many a twist and turn...an absorbing read, well worth recommending BOOKSELLER This is a gutsy page-turning novel with a delightful heroine... larger than life Dickensian characters and generous supply of plot twists and turns. But it is no pastiche. It is an affectionate and knowledgeable homage to the genre and a thumping good read HISTORICAL NOVELS REVIEW

Title: The Somnambulist
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Contributors: By (author) Essie Fox

ISBN 13: 9781409121190
ISBN 10: 1409121194

Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
Imprint: Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Publication Date: 24/04/2012
Place of Publication: London, United Kingdom
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BIC Subjects: Modern fiction
Dewey Classification: 823.92 (DC23)
NBS Classification: General & Literary Fiction

Format: Paperback
Pages: 400
Height: 196mm
Width: 128mm
Thickness: 29mm
Weight: 305g